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If you have been following the Mahmoud Khalil deportation saga, you are likely familiar with the controversial statute that the administration has deployed to justify rescinding his green card and deporting him. This “foreign policy” provision, historically deployed sparingly, authorizes deportation if the secretary of state determines that a noncitizen’s continued presence would have “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences.” In Khalil’s case, the current secretary of state, Marco Rubio, concluded that he was subject to this ground because he had engaged in “antisemitic conduct and disruptive protests” that created “a hostile environment for Jewish

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